The rise of the mass media and professional science makes the years before the Great War an important formative period in the history of popular science. Peter Broks explores the magazines of the time and uncovers the scientist as hero and villain; science for and against religion; animal biographies and a new empathy with nature; technology as evolutionary progress; utopian visions and degenerationst fears. Through this cultural analysis of popular science he shows how Victorian hopes turned into Edwardian disillusion.

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University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Peter Broks

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Book Title: Media Science before the Great War
Authors: Peter Broks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25043-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-25045-5Published: 01 January 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-25043-1Published: 12 January 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 183
Topics: History of Science, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Media Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Modern History

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